Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-17
Her Hair Turned White.
LADY WHO BEARS THE MARKS OF NIGHT OF
TERRIBLE SUSPENSE


From the Pittsburg Dispatch
party OF doctors and ladies were discussing
yesterday question which interests everybody on
this terrestrial sphere namely, the SHOWS OF time
which sooner or later must whiten the head OF
President and peasant, and layman who was also
present said: 81 know OF man who but a few
weeks ago had a muStache as brown and darkly
brown a. the fur OF a seal. Now il Is almost white
In places and not hair Of 1t but Is gray. The
change took place In the space OF one night, that
succeeding the death Of daughter who was to
transformation"
Upon this one OF the ladies said: 81 happened to
De In New Orleans q few years after the close OF
the war, and at a reception one night met
young lady who could not have been more than
twenty years old, but whose hair was OF pure
silvery white. She was beautiful girl, and vii tn
this crown OF silver naturally attracted every ones
attention. learned how she came to have white
hair soon afterwards. She was the daughter OF
wholesale grocer In New orleans, and during the
early part OF the war lived with her parents in
that city. Just before New Orleans was occupied
Dy Gen. Butler, her father, who was then an in
valid, took his family out to a small plantation
that ne owned near Baton Rouge. At the same
time an uncle OF the girl am talking Of managed
to run the blockade and took with him very large
quantity OF diamonds and other valuabies-fOr he
was jeweler. He reached England In safety
"The family enjoyed peace and security for some
hoisted the stars and Stripes in New Orleans.
Onc nlBnC sOOn aIJer tnaI event q party or bum.
mers or camp followers said to be attached to
the Union Army. but who, as l believe, may lust
as likely have been thieves and cutthrOatS OF Con-
federate SympathfeS from the purlieus OF New
orleans, made descent upon the house at Baton
Rouge IL was nearly midnight when the family
was aroused by loud knocking at the door. The
door a minute or two later was burst in, and five
or six masked men entered the house. They pro-
ceeded at once to the room where the lamp was
burning by the bedside of the master OF the
house, who was very Ill at the time
II should have stated" said the lady "that the
rightly. One OF the masked men, revolver In hand.
stepped up to Mr.. Hythe and said: we want the
diamonds and 1ewelry you brought away from
New Orleans Mr.. Hythe realized at once that
the robbers had mistaken him for his brother, the
Jeweler, and tried to explain that he had no dia.
monds or anything OF any particular value in the
house. They refused to believe him, and pro-
ceeded TO make thorough search OF the house
Mr.. Hythe's two daughters had been sleeping in
the room below their fathers, but Of course were
tide of war which had swept over them once or
twice before enabled them 10 understand
the situation at once. BY good fortune
they we're enabled to get out Of the house
in safety and reach neighbOring canebrake,
where they hid. Meanwhile the robbers, having
tried to induce Mrs. Hythe, whom they had cap
tured, 70 reveal the whereabouts Of the treasure.
She could only affirm what her husband had said.
They subjected her to horrible indgnties and nm
building. The girls In their hiding place saw the
torches applied; saw their father, as the flames
leaped up to the roof come TO the window OF his
room and then fall back into the fire. They dared
not move, and when the neighbors found them,
hours later, the hair OF the younger girl, then hf-
cheeks, blOodlesS with fright. Her HAIR had been
black as night before"